In a message dated 2/8/00 10:52:26 AM Central Standard Time, kkennedy@mail.coin.missouri.edu writes: << In hindsight, if Ann wants to plant peas next year, maybe she should mail order the seed ahead of time, just to be sure. >> Yep, This would save me some searching. Problems come when I end up with $50 worth of seed and only $5 worth of space to plant it. The beans I planted this last week were purchased for the 1997 season. So far 3/4 have come up. The rest may have, but a local cat decided my nice bed was a good litter box. Then there is the golfball I found planted in there too. My own dog may have helped. I have an awful problem holding myself to only what I need when I get into the catalogs. I still have a couple of unopened pkgs of seed from 1997 stored in the frig. Off to Walmart I go, for some seed for this coming winter season. Anne in FL zone 9b, sunset 26 No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -Booker T. Washington